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Sun Takes Another Solar Shot, This Time At Earth
April 12, 2001 — An angry Sun fired off another powerful X-class flare Tuesday, April 10. X-class flares are the most powerful classification, and this flare, rated X-2, was the most recent in a series that included ... > full story -
Sun Unleashes Record Superflare, Earth Dodges Solar Bullet
April 4, 2001 — The Sun blasted one of its largest flares in 25 years from the same region harboring the largest sunspot of the current solar cycle Monday evening. The region, designated active region 9393, has ... > full story -
Now Playing At The Star Nearest You: The Largest Sunspot In Ten Years Blazes Away With Eruptions
March 30, 2001 — A huge sunspot, thirteen-times larger than the surface area of the Earth and growing, has now rotated with the Sun to face our planet. The sunspot, which is the largest of the current solar cycle, is ... > full story -
Colliding Solar Eruptions Pack Powerful Magnetic Punch
March 28, 2001 — Fast-moving solar eruptions apparently overtake and often devour their slower kin. This discovery was made by a team of astronomers working with tandem NASA spacecraft. Solar eruptions directed ... > full story -
IMAGE Satellite Snaps First Pictures From Space Of Earth's Double Aurora
March 16, 2001 — Among the first pictures captured by the Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, satellite, launched a year ago to study the Earth's magnetic shield, is the first global view of the ... > full story -
More Accurate Space Storm Warnings Now Possible
June 21, 2000 — The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous estimates of two to ... > full story -
USGS Issues Geomagnetic Storm Alert
June 9, 2000 — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is bracing for the likely arrival of a major geomagnetic storm and possible auroral activity over the next few days. While it is geomagnetic storms that give rise to ... > full story -
Disruptions From Sun’s Geomagnetic Storms Forecast With "Cat-Scan" Of Solar Wind
June 2, 2000 — Three-dimensional images of magnetic storms from the Sun, developed by physicists at the University of California, San Diego and Japan’s Nagoya University, are allowing space-weather ... > full story -
Some Coronal Mass Ejections Are Caused By Shock Waves From Solar Flares In Other Regions Of The Sun
April 4, 2000 — Scientists have discovered that some CMEs are caused by solar flares not directly under them. Shock waves from the flares cross an interconnecting loop of solar material, causing it to eject hot ... > full story -
FAST Spacecraft Discovers Invisible Aurora
December 29, 1999 — An invisible aurora exists as a companion to the familiar visible aurora, also known as the aurora borealis, or northern lights, in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis (southern lights) ... > full story
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